I dont need a system hog desktop, it takes forever to quit apps anyways and thats without it having to load some spinny cube dektop thing with transparent movies layered over each other. Maybe when i have enought computing power that i wont notice it - then yeah, but this time will be far far away. Not to mention that i…
[ QUOTE ] Yeah but: A. It's pretty, but uses mroe resources then needed for teh fancy effects. B. I dunno about your video cards, but when mine is in a 3d aplication the fan on my card turns on and is quite loud. This would mean a constant noise increase, and a lower lifespan for the card i'm assuming. C. It's still nto…
[ QUOTE ] I read an article on Slashdot a while back about how a company tried using Linux, but the cost and time of installation and maintanence easily cost them much more than just installing XP. They said it took them over 2 weeks I believe to get the OS set up, while it would have taken them a couple days for XP. [/…
Still the lack of applications bugs me. 95% of the US government uses windows, we put up with the quirks because it has useable software. Linux does not have anywhere near the ease of use or software library to warrant this. Yeah it'll attract some more people, but if it's released free, whats teh point in wasting the man…
Cheap: i'm a sr. systems engineer for various department of defence contracts, and have been for over 6 years years now. I certainly hope you are not inferring that I am a dumbass. I have used Ubuntu, and even passed a proposal to use it for a G4u file server/ftp for our desktop images. I'm obviously not alone in thinking…
i seriously doubt the time taken to make something cross platform is worth the return investment. Given that only maybe 5% of the people who play games do so on a linux system. Yes you can run some win32 apps or virtual machiens, but it's still too complicated for the average human. ID software has made thier games cross…